01.11.09
You are not your genome
Completely lost in the age of scientism, and now in the subage of the genome, Self and genome, is any sense of a greater self, and how we are to come to an understanding of it. In a sense, and the age of Darwinism is one of the foundations of the confusion, we live in an exile where our sense of self is ‘alienated’ in the original and true. Many turn to the equally limited resources of religion (Christianity, that is) that seem to correct this lack, but which in reality are a close cousin of the social control of humans effected via the process, direct or indirect, of keeping them ignorant of who they are, of making them socially robotic and tuned to their propaganda masters, religious or scientific.
Pinker, who should know better, is one of those propagandists, witting or unwitting.
With Chomsky, who was Pinker’s teacher, the Darwin paradigm was about to confront the complexity behind the oversimplifications and ideology.
Pinker saw a good career move in trying to erase that moment of clarity by reconfusing the question of language and its evolution.
A good example of the way this system coopts smart people to keep everyone confused and overawed by the experts, so-called.